White · Sonoma Coast · United States
Kistler Dutton Ranch Chardonnay
Scored from 277 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: White · United States (2,311 wines).
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Tasting profile
A big, buttery Chardonnay with creamy, nutty character and notes of butterscotch, honey, mango, banana, and a touch of lemon, rounded out by hints of walnut, leather, and peach. Smooth and complex yet crisp, with controlled sweetness that opens up beautifully with time.
Synthesized from 277Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Big, buttery Chardonnay but with controlled sweetness. Beautiful hits of honey and mango and a bit of lemon. Love!”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
From Sonoma Coast in the United States, Kistler Dutton Ranch Chardonnay is a white.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against 2,310 other whites from the United States, not against the corpus as a whole. 277 Vivino reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 281 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this bottle against every other wine those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — four stars from someone who hands out fives means something very different from four stars from someone who rarely goes above three. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a star average.
- Global percentile
- Where Kistler Dutton Ranch Chardonnay lands against every wine we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — wines of the same type from the same country. A Chilean red is judged against Chilean reds, not against Champagne. Ranked against White · United States (2,311 wines).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each wine keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 277.
